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Description
UCOP and UCSD have developed a cooperative arrangement to provide shared, real-time disaster recovery services for their Data Center operations. The goal of the initiative is for each location to house the others’ critical applications so that they may be restored in the event of a disaster. UCOP has setup several servers at UCSD to enable the data to be replicated as close to real time as possible and, in some cases, within a 24 hour timeframe.
Scheduled for full implementation between April and June 2007, the initiative will ensure that in the event of a disaster at one location, the other can recover and run key systems with assistance from its own personnel. (UCOP capability is already in place; UCSD capability will be in place between April and June.) Other UC campuses are considering joining the initiative, which was promoted through the UC IT Leadership Council. In addition, other UCOP departments may take advantage of the UCSD/UCOP shared capabilities to enhance their own disaster recovery methods.
Systems Included in the Disaster Recovery Strategy
Other systems will be added to the disaster recovery portfolio in later phases. Several restoration tests have been conducted at UCSD in the last several months, surpassing UCOP’s previous disaster recovery capability at the IBM disaster recovery site in Boulder Colorado.
Cost Benefits
The cooperative arrangement reduces disaster recovery costs for both locations
and greatly increases capability. For example, in the past, UCOP had contracted
with IBM for disaster recovery services at $200K per year; the services
would have cost $200 - $600K per month had they ever needed to be used.
Now, through the shared internal arrangement, recovery services can be provided
through UCSD for the first 90 days of a disaster with no incremental cost.
Additional Information
Presentation
to IT Leadership Council, January 2007
